The Cumbraes are a group of islands in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. The Firth of Clyde is the estuary of the River Clyde, from its upper tidal limit in Glasgow city centre to the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ...
These two islands are divided by a broad sound called The Tan. There are also a number of uninhabited islets in the group: Great Cumbrae and other south-west coast islands Great Cumbrae (also known as Cumbrae or the Isle of Cumbrae) is an island in the lower Firth of Clyde, 4 Kilometers long by 2 Kilometers wide. ... Little Cumbrae is an island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. ... In geography a sound is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (see also strait). ...
The Eileans
The Broad Islands
Castle Island
Trail Isle
The Cumbraes are separated from the Scottish mainland by a busy shipping channel known as Fairlie Roads. Fairlie is a small village within the administrative region of North Ayrshire, Scotland. ...
THE CUMBRAES, two islands forming part of the county of Bute, Scotland, lying in the Firth of Clyde, between the southern shores of Bute and the coast of Ayrshire.
Little Cumbrae Island lies to the north, separated by the Tan, a strait half a mile wide.
In Great Cumbrae the intrusive rocks mark four periods of eruption, three of which may be of Carboniferous age.
Did the Cumbrae church become a prey to the destroyer in any one of the wars that raged between Bretwald and Pict, then was it that Maura may have come to the rescue and provided the means for its complete restoration.
Cumbrae church was only too likely to receive the hostile attentions of the hardy but destructive sea- rovers, and it is to this period of violence we must assign the building of the refuge-hold on the Lorne.
Cumbrae Church may not have been inscribed to the memory of Maura until early in the eighth century.
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